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Cloning resulted in non-bootable system... seems to have messed up original C drive

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I wanted to clone my C drive onto another drive that had been in my Asus Essentio CM6850-07 desktop. I am running Windows 8.1. I cloned the drives which went smooth. My machine powered down but upon pouring it back up I received the no operating system error. So I thought no problem I will just tell BIOS to boot from the old C drive which was still intact... at least I think it is. It will not boot off of that drive either but provides a different message about selecting the boot drive. I look at BIOS and it is set to boot from that drive.

I know I did not screw up and do a reverse clone. But I am at a loss as to what is going on or how to recover from it.

I am trying to boot off a backup USB external drive and while it seems to be doing something I still do not have a Windows desktop to get to work on.

Thoughts?

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Disconnect the new drive and attempt boot.

If you have a Windows install disk boot to that, select language, then choose repair installation

After I got into a command prompt and looked at the directory I realized my foolish mistake of apparently cloning in the wrong direction. I have a backup on an external drive thankfully. Thanks for your help Bob. Total user error.